Naslov
Social capital as a factor of motivation for free/libre/open source software development

Autori
Kolarec, Josip ; Bajić, M. ; Jandrić, Petar

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Prpoceedings of the 4th European Conference of Computer Science (ECCS '13) Recent Advances in Information Science / Margenstern, Maurice ; Psarris, Kleanthis ; Mandić, Danimir - Pariz : WSEAS Press, 2013, 208-215

ISBN
978-960-474-344-5

Skup
European Conference of Computer Science (4 ; 2013))

Mjesto i datum
Pariz, Francuska, 29.10.2013. - 31.10.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Social capital ; FLOSS ; motivation ; network society ; hacker ethic ; free software ; the Cathedral ; the Bazaar

Sažetak
This paper provides an overview of the main principles governing free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) movement, and places its theory and practice into the context of Manuel Castells’s network society. Itanalyses various motivators for FLOSS development, and shows that individual motivation for FLOSS development is dialectically intertwined with organizational structures and ethical values. On such basis, it arrives to the conclusion that motivation for participation in FLOSS development is simultaneously individual and social, economic and political. People have multiple and diverse motives for FLOSS development and their combinations may create radically different kinds of social capital. Consequently, social capital within the FLOSS movement is far from homogenous, and it is more accurate to talk of multiplicity of social capitals and various cross-sections between them. Based on such conclusion, the paper identifies the main methodological restrictions and proposes directions for future research.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti, Sociologija

Napomena
Recent Advances in Computer Engineering Series 1 ; 7

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